[ale] replacing text

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ah. Single quotes.
Thank you.
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On Friday 12 December 2003 16:04, Geoffrey wrote:
> ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > I am trying to replace text in a set of files.
> > Thusly:  perl -pi -e "s/test/tEst/g;" ./*
> > Worketh.
> >
> > However, I need to replace variables marked with $
> > Thusly: perl -pi -e "s/$test/$tEst/g;" ./*
> > Not worketh, nor  perl -pi -e "s/\$test/\$tEst/g;" ./*
> >
> > How do I "escape" the $ ?
>
> perl -pi -e 's/\$test/\$Test/;'